Grand Prix racing is embarking an all-new rules era this season with ground-effect cars aimed at making the racing closer and levelling the playing field much more between teams.
While it is too early to know if the spectacle will be better, F1’s chiefs are more optimistic that the overall package of regulations – which include a budget cap and an aero development handicap system – will result in much closer competition.
And with there being around a three-second difference between the front of the field and the back throughout 2021, the FIA’s head of single seater matters Nikolas Tombazis thinks that once things settle down after the first year of the new rules, the spread could be down to around 1.5 seconds.
“I think that currently the best to worst [team gap] is probably about three seconds, depending on the circuit,” he explained.
“I hope that, after maybe a year, we will have this less than half of that. That is what I would hope, but we’ll have to see.”
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